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Published Date: 07 November 2009
By TOM PETERKIN
THE Prime Minister said he wanted to create an economy with "jobs for all" as he campaigned in Glasgow yesterday.
Gordon Brown was visiting the Glasgow North East constituency to support the Labour candidate Willie Bain.

"I want to see a situation where, not only do we give you new opportunities in education, but we create an economy where there are jobs for
all," Mr Brown said on a tour of the Langside College of Further Education.

Mr Brown also attacked the SNP government's decision to axe the Glasgow Airport Rail Link describing it as "inexplicable, wrong, and shortsighted".

His wife, Sarah, has been campaigning in the seat vacated by the former Commons speaker Michael Martin.

The SNP's David Kerr focused on education. With education secretary Fiona Hyslop, Mr Kerr visited the John Wheatley College in the constituency.

He said: "When it comes to education, Labour have their priorities all wrong.

"Despite a record settlement from the SNP government, the Labour Council has closed five primary schools in Glasgow North East against the wishes of parents, slashed teacher numbers and increased class sizes."

Conservative candidate Ruth Davidson said in her campaigning: "Labour is now the party of unemployment."

Former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy was in Glasgow with candidate Eileen Baxendale, who said Labour's recession was damaging business.







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  • Last Updated: 07 November 2009 12:20 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

polls,

Scotland 06/11/2009 23:02:34
With a 10,000 plus majority this seat should be a shoe in for Bain.

This ridiculous soundbite married to the recent smear tactics suggest that Labour are concerned about something.

The media have been silent as well .... is it too close for comfort I wonder?
2

polls,

Scotland 06/11/2009 23:04:05
Some very interesting postal vote figures and more on the Newsnet Scotland blogspot.

http://newsnetscotland.blogspot.com

Well worth a read !!
3

The Real Rufus T Firefly,

06/11/2009 23:47:49
#1 polls,Scotland 06/11/2009 23:02:34
With a 10,000 plus majority this seat should be a shoe in for Bain.
-------------------------------------------

Don't worry. It will be.
4

Brianwci,

07/11/2009 00:15:24
"THE Prime Minister said he wanted to create an economy with "jobs for all" "

Er Gordon, London Labour has had 12 years to create an economy with 'jobs for all'.

You may well have done that in Middle England but you certainly haven't done it in Scotland and most certainly NOT done it in Glasgow North East.
5

Brianwci,

07/11/2009 00:25:42
Thanks for the link #2 polls: http://newsnetscotland.blogspot.com

Some scary figures for increases in postal votes and even scarier rise in the almost 3000 new names on the electoral register.

I hope the SNP is monitoring this very closely.
6

Charles Linskaill,

Edinburgh 07/11/2009 00:36:13

The Pantomime is holding great interest, and the statements are getting bolder, our weather might depress, but the political antics put a smile on our faces.



7

GH1,

Voting SNP in Glasgow North East 07/11/2009 00:41:35
So Mr Brown attacked the SNP government's decision to axe the Glasgow Airport Rail Link describing it as "inexplicable, wrong, and shortsighted".

So good old Gordon would prefer to take money away from the Health Service, reduce police on the streets, and increase class sizes in primary schools, just to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on a rail link to the airport which few people in Glasgow will be using. Especially the good folk in Glasgow North East. Let me repeat some of a post from last week.

We in the North East of Glasgow are not interested in the Glasgow rail link, and why should we be? Labour are kidding themselves if they think we are.

What family of four, lugging heavy suitcases, would choose to walk to a bus stop, wait half an hour for a bus that might not turn up? Just to take them into the centre of Glasgow?

At five in the morning in the pitch black, and/or in heavy rain?

Just to take them into the chaos of the city centre, and then have to walk from the bus stop to the station? With the cases?

And then stand in another queue with the rest of the crowds to catch a train to the airport? Still lugging the cases?

Does Gray Iain think we're mad? It reminds me of the advert for Mash get Smash.

After giving them a complimentary wake up call, any local taxi will pick up the whole family from outside their front door and whisk them in comfort straight down the M8 to the airport in ten minutes flat. And all for a fixed price of fourteen quid.

The SNP are absolutely right. The rail link to the airport is a total waste of tax payers' money, at least as far as the good folk in the North East of Glasgow are concerned. It's a no brainer. Build hospitals and schools instead.
8

Eduardinho,

07/11/2009 01:07:41
Gordon Brown should try and explain how GARL can be paid for as HE has slashed the money that Westminster gives to Scotland.
Notice Petertkin doesnt ask this question, but then again he is Labour's mouth piece on the Scotsman
9

Eduardinho,

07/11/2009 01:16:36
Roll May 6th next year and the general election, when we can rid ourselves of Gordon Brown and the scum Labour government
10

Barney Thomson,

Reading 07/11/2009 01:41:39
What part of Langside College is in Glasgow North East? Or even north of the river?
11

Barney Thomson,

Reading 07/11/2009 01:43:57
Has Gordon lost his way yet again?
12

Charles Linskaill,

Edinburgh 07/11/2009 02:33:23

A far as Glasgow North East is concerned, Gordon Browns troops need backed by their Leader, and Gordon Brown has honored this, His troops will do well!

13

Handsome Scotsman,

07/11/2009 02:53:47
Jobs for all the people ?
At £2.3trillion in debt all he can deliver is the Grim Reaper and the bailiffs.
14

uno.who,

Livingston 07/11/2009 02:57:47
"Jobs for all" ???

Is Gordy living in some parallel universe ? We've never had it so .... bad.
15

urchin,

07/11/2009 03:37:23
In all honesty you could not be to concerned about the present postal vote numbers.Although over fifty percent in favour for the S.N.P.,to early to call.It will be the elderly vote that will take the day.
16

Baggy Troosers,

07/11/2009 04:03:23
The postal vote needs to be watched like a hawk.
Labour are DESPERATE to keep hold of this seat at any cost.
17

Jo'Burg Jock,

South Africa 07/11/2009 04:13:57
From the article:-

Brown says:-

"I want to see a situation where, not only do we give you new opportunities in education, but we create an economy where there are jobs for all,"
______________________________________________________

BROWN "WANTS TO SEE" !!!!

He was Chancellor of the Exchequer for more than 10 years and has been Prime Minister for more than 2 years.

AND HE HAS NOT :-

"given anyone new opportunities in education"

NOR HAS HE :-

"created an economy where there are jobs for all"
_____________________________________________________

What is this Nutter - Gordon Brown - on about??

18

Jo'Burg Jock,

South Africa 07/11/2009 04:17:10
Brown says:-

"I want to see "
____________________________________________________

Everyone else "wants to see" him removed to a place where he can do no more harm.

19

Jo'Burg Jock,

South Africa 07/11/2009 04:25:33

Gordon Brown sold half of Britain's gold reserves at an average price of $275 an ounce.

Yesterday gold touched $1100 an ounce.
_______________________________________________________


Hands up anyone who believes Brown knows what he is talking about!!

20

mark mccann,

07/11/2009 04:32:04
2 Well done for posting the link http://newsnetscotland.blogspot.com/

What I find even more outrageous is the story on the BBC and Bryan Taylor hosting the radio show with out any SNP representation. Surely there are rules for these shows? Why do the BBC continue to get away with the blatant bias they show towards the Labour party in Scotland?

If the SNP do win this byelection it will be a miracle.

If Labour can't win an election with a 10000 majority without their pals in BBC Scotland fixing the coverage to exlude the opposition, they are in serious trouble.
21

Scotindy,

Los Angeles 07/11/2009 04:33:09
JOBS FOR ALL, what a load of BS.What has the LIEBOR PARTY BEING DOING FOR THE LAST 70 YEARS IN THAT SAME AREA, Foulking LIEING AS THEY ALWAYS HAVE AND ALWAYS WILL DO, THEY ARE GOING TOO LOSE THIS ONE THIS TIME AROUND.The good folks of that area will not return another LIEBOR MP EVER.......
22

Jo'Burg Jock,

South Africa 07/11/2009 04:39:16

GH1,Voting SNP in Glasgow North East 07/11/2009 00:41:35
_____________________________________________________

Well worth repeating, well done.


23

Baggy Troosers,

07/11/2009 05:40:09
#3
R.T.Fly

I see its your turn for the Google front page.
Time for a haircut.
24

Baggy Troosers,

07/11/2009 05:49:00
#20
"Why do the BBC continue to get away with the blatant bias they show".

The clue is in the title Mark.

It's the BBC, British Broacasting Corporation ,which basically means the SNP will always be sidelined by the BBC as they (we) want to break up Britain and be Independent.
As the bbc is'nt an Independent company(ie Board of governors )running the show ,unfortunately the SNP wont be given the time of day.

25

Baggy Troosers,

07/11/2009 05:58:11
#7

Not being from the North East of Glasgow ,you're comment sure opens my eyes to the stupidity of this Rail link should it ever come to pass ,well said.

It's just a pity that the Majority in Glasgow North East will believe the Guff that Labour throw at them and vote them in again.
26

Rob Royston,

Africa 07/11/2009 06:33:35
#7, #25, etc.

I am pleased that GARL has been shelved. I am one of those who advocate one Central Airport for Central Scotland.

What Glasgow needs first, as far as railways go, is a new combined Rail and Bus Station that serves all routes, instead of two separate terminus stations for the trains and a bus station boxed in by a shopping centre. The existing bus station is going to have a car park built over it if the crazy councillors have their way. Anything to turn a fast buck.

If the new Central Airport remains a dead duck, then Garl might have a future once the dead-end city centre links have been replaced with some system that works for the people who matter, the travelling public.
27

Dùn Èideann Bully Wee,

07/11/2009 06:57:45
“......................Mr Brown said on a tour of the Langside College of Further Education.”

Langside College is just along the road from Hampden Park in the south-side of Glasgow.

Mr Brown will not have met very many potential voters in this by-election there.
28

morris,

edinburgh 07/11/2009 07:24:45
What I find fascinating about this contest is the SNP candidate is accused of having two birth places.Every single person I have asked was giving the locus of their earliest memories as their birth place, when in fact they were born in a hospital a few miles away. I myself give my birthplace as Edinburgh, when in fact I was born in Leith ,and grew up in neither!I made no attempt to deceive whatsoever, nor did anybody else!
Contrast that with the Labour Party candidates position who claims he lives in GLASGOW but works in LONDON where he has a flat in Islington. The address he lives at in Glasgow is his parents house despite the neighbours having no idea who he is!
If you believe that one ...............no comment!You work it out!

This is Mags Curran all over again.
VOTE LABOUR GET A LIAR.
Of course Mr Bains house will be needed for A. N Other LABOUR mp to rent from him,and claim back the cost of buying the house which is then paid to Mr Bain who meantime rents a house from A.N Other Labour MP and they get that mortgage paid for also, except its you and me paying for it.
IF WE ARE BUYING THESE HOUSES WE (courtesy of the state) SHOULD OWN THESE HOUSES and there should be one allocated to each consituency, and they dont need to claim rent because they dont pay any.
The Westmidden pig trough is still up and running,and if you support LONDON RULE its what you deserve!
29

morris,

edinburgh 07/11/2009 07:30:30
27 Presumably its quite close tae Mags Currans hoose in Glesca East yes? Ah get awfy consused aboot Glesca. Even Wendy thocht that Jersey and Guernsey were somewhere near Castlemilk.
30

Jobless recovery,

07/11/2009 07:54:01
Gordon Brown is a communist.
31

Aberdeenshire Creepy Scot,

07/11/2009 07:58:04
Morris has been on the dodo tablets I see. We nationalists/separatists believe it is okay to be born in two places as long as it helps us garner votes. We also believe that during political debates on tv, it is perfectly acceptable to throw £2 coins at other candidates.

We in the SNP know how to behave 24/7 just to make sure the tiny minority have their way over the vast majority.

Avanti separation and isolation.
32

Aberdeenshire Creepy Scot,

07/11/2009 08:01:22
Vote SNP and get Opus Dei.

Avanti Opus Dei.
33

Auld Twa,

Edinburgh 07/11/2009 08:08:53
Gordon Brown will provide jobs for all, just like he has banished boom and bust and sorted out the world's financial system and will next deal with the world's climate change crisis at the summit in Copenhagen.
34

Aberdeenshire Creepy Scot,

07/11/2009 08:19:15
Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown are hosting the G20 summit today in St Andrews.

If Salmond switches over from BBC ALBA to Sky news he can keep abreast of any important developments by pressing the red button.

In an independent Scotland we will still have important summits.

The peaks of the munros.
35

morris,

edinburgh 07/11/2009 08:19:47
31 Considering the SNP are a democratic party and even if that were not the case ,the support of the majority is required before and independent Scotland would be recognised by United Nations /the international community and the SNP cannot implement anything against the wishes of the people.
Even if you refer to Holyrood the system is one Unionists designed , and anything implemented there depends upon concencus, so some of the Unionists supported it!
If you dont know this (and you already volunteered that information) then I can see even less reason to vote for your party.
36

morris,

edinburgh 07/11/2009 08:21:53
34 That comment says far more about you than it does Salmond. Keep it up please
37

morris,

edinburgh 07/11/2009 08:48:08
30 Are you serious?

I see no reason to insult Communism (which is a sound theory but not terribly practical when one considers how greedy the human race is)with Brown.
Whilst I would debate what constitutes true socialism and what goes that extra yard into the realms of fantasy world,I wouldn't include McCavity on anything even remotely left of centre,nor would millions.

The man is like Blair. New Labour SAME OLD TORY.
38

Jings MacCrivvens,

07/11/2009 08:49:06
Another "pledge" from Brown/ Just like his "pledge" on a Lisbon Treaty referendum?
39

Jings MacCrivvens,

07/11/2009 08:50:38
" I want to see a situation where ............ we create an economy ......"

Funny that given Brown and his Labour Party have just finished destroying our economy!
40

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 08:55:02
20

Mr McCann,


"What I find even more outrageous is the story on the BBC and Bryan Taylor hosting the radio show with out any SNP representation."

What I find outrageous is that the cybernats think they can get away with spouting lies without correction. The nationalist voice on that panel was Joan McAlpine - journalist and SNP supporter.

Telling stupid lies just makes you look stupid (as David Kerr has found out to his cost)
41

Front Street,

Grange Court 07/11/2009 08:58:09
#26.."If the new Central Airport remains a dead duck"

It's alive and well, Edinburgh Airport - Scotland's
busiest/accessible/convenient - is already the popular natural choice. It just needs independent ownership to attract those long haul routes that are currently mysteriously missing.
42

morris,

edinburgh 07/11/2009 09:00:32
38/39 Indeed
If he couldn't manage full employment while he was (in Labours own words) being the Iron Chancellor and doing "brilliantly",except of course he wasn't, it would be quite an achievement when he is about to lose nearly 200 seats in the General Election,be removed from office,and even if he did somehow personally survive, still be in a recession.
LABOUR are full of it.
43

Mc Max ,

07/11/2009 09:01:32
40
Yaaawwwwn.
Dont you know that it is labour who do the LIES.They(labour) have a long history of lying
Tut,tut.
44

Jings MacCrivvens,

07/11/2009 09:04:25
#42
Absolutely!

Labour's hegemony has lasted 70+ years, but it is only now thinking about job-creation. Funny that!
45

Mc Max ,

07/11/2009 09:04:30
40.
Example,
Broon say,s.
"I want to see a situation where, not only do we give you new opportunities in education, but we create an economy where there are jobs for all,"

See what I mean?
46

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 09:06:26
45

Mr McMax,

"See what I mean?"

Frankly, no.

The poster claims that the BBC broadcast a debate where the SNP were not represented. That's a lie.
47

morris,

edinburgh 07/11/2009 09:11:49
40 What I find amusing is that you consider the exclusion of a party (as in an identifiable party representation) to be in order.


Why do you think they invite a "non politician" onto Question Time? Do you think its because they dont vote or dont have any views?
48

The Former Mr. Angry,

Perth 07/11/2009 09:17:35
I suppose there might be some in Glasgow North East who would believe Gordo's "jobs for all" promise but in a weary kind of way we've been there before - the apprenticeships, all the jobs he created after he also created the bust, British jobs for Asian/Polish/non-UK workers, etc.

Lies, lies and more lies. But he is doomed in thankfully a few short months before the Conservatives have to go in yet again and clear up a disgraceful and catastrophic Labour mess.
49

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 09:18:30
47

Mr Morris,

A couple of weeks ago on Mr Taylor's show there was no member of the panel from the Labour Party. Labour's case was put by Paul Sinclair, of PR company Hill & Knowlton - it is not unusual for a political party to be represented by a non-politician supporter on discussion programmes.

What is it with you nutty nats? You're like a penalty box diver, forever throwing yourselves to the ground and caliming for a penalty...here's a yellow card for your troubles.....
50

Mc Max ,

07/11/2009 09:23:58
46
Grahamski
WMD, Now thats what I call a Lie.
51

Jings MacCrivvens,

07/11/2009 09:26:53
#50
Tut tut!

In Labour circles WMD's are only teensy-weeny lies. But birthplace porkies are a hanging offence.
52

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 09:27:23
50

Mr McMax,


"Now thats what I call a Lie."

Aye very good, I see you have no excuse for the lies pumped out by the cybernats..is that your best defence?

'Please Miss, look what Labour are doing!'

Pathetic.
53

morris,

edinburgh 07/11/2009 09:27:27
41 Fair comment.

Any airport near the m8 would serve 50% of Scotlands population who live in and around Glasgow and Edinburgh,and we have two airports there(Glasgow and Edinburgh) and even have Prestwick which is relatively fog free if we need it.
Our airport provision is quite good,but we could always expand the flight destinations available of course
Even if we only connect to Heathrow and Schiphol we cover the world in two flights.We once thought nothing of commuting to Prestwick or even Heathrow so I cant see any problem provided the bus/tram services from the airport link to our rail network at some point.
One thing that does bother me though is why the ferry from Rosyth does not call in at LEITH,which it has to pass anyway .Its only the capital city after all.
54

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 09:28:16
51

Mr MacCrivvens,

"..birthplace porkies.."

Glad to see you've finally admitted the SNP candidate is a liar...
55

TWC,

exLabour 07/11/2009 09:29:46
This is the safest seat in Scotland for Labour. Why does this man continue to churn out this Mantra of lies.

This guy will do nothing for Scotland, we have People in the oil business telling us that over the next thirty years we can clear the UK debt from th Oil and yet we can't help Scotland.
SLAB are a disgrace.
56

Jings MacCrivvens,

07/11/2009 09:32:32
#54
It is very illuminating to have your mental capacity verified when you seem to think that (allegedly) telling porkies about birthplace is on a par with a downright lie and which took the country into two wars costing mega-billions and in which hundreds of thousands of innocent people have lost their lives and even more have been maimed.
Oh yes when Labour lies it does so in the grand manner.
57

frank mcbride,

lusitania 07/11/2009 09:33:06
Grahamski.

"Gordon Brown was visiting the Glasgow NE constituency to support the Labour candidate Willie Bain."

Can you inform us as to where Langside College is situated?

Can you tells us if Mr. Peterkin is, simply, misinformed or, is he telling untruths on behalf of NuLabour?
58

morris,

edinburgh 07/11/2009 09:33:41
49 What's with us is there is a by election on, and it stands to obvious reason that I would NOT favour exclusion of anybody.
During a campaign ,representation of all parties and impartiality are a pre requisite of democracy I would have thought.
I would never favour the exclusion of the Labour Party! Besides they are the biggest asset the SNP has.
59

TWC,

exLabour 07/11/2009 09:35:27
BTW Brown got Boo'd at the College when he arrived, but I'm informed he was ok when he talked.

Well Talk he's good at - It's action and decisions he doesn't do.
60

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 09:35:42
57
Mr McBride,

Where in the article does Mr Peterkin say that Langside College is in the Glasgow NE constituency?
61

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 09:36:45
58

Mr Morris,

Nobody was excluded, now get up and get on with the game.....
62

brownlie,

07/11/2009 09:36:48
54 Grahamski,

Morning, sir, were you Gordon's driver yesterday when he was campaigning for Glasgow North East on the south side of the river?

I understand that Bain was against the Iraq invasion? That being the case, what's he doing in NewLabour? He surely cannot be making this claim because voters in Glasgow NE, in common with most of Scotland, were against the invasion?
63

Jings MacCrivvens,

07/11/2009 09:37:48
#57
Is Langside College noton the south side near where Labour's Margaret Curran now resides?
Remember Curran, she who told us she had lived all of her life in Glasgow's East end?
64

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 09:41:48
62

Mr Brownlie,


"That being the case, what's he doing in NewLabour?"

It is very revealing that those of a nationalist bent can't quite get their heads around the idea of with disagreeing with your party's leadership.....
65

morris,

edinburgh 07/11/2009 09:42:48
55 Unfortunately that's precisely what will happen to the oil revenues . That which was not already squandered to pay the dole queues of Thatchers UK will be used to pay back the failings and borrowing of Broons term as Chancer of the Exchequer and he is now the Heid Banger of course.
HAIL SCOTLAND The only country ever to discover oil and be poorer as a result of it.
Compare this to Norway who have created a permanent source of injection into their economy.
We may be neighbours but we are worlds apart.
Norway : Smart cookie of Europe.
Scotland : Part of a bankrupt UK.
66

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 09:44:56
64

Mr MacCrivvens,


"Remember Curran, she who told us she had lived all of her life in Glasgow's East end?"

How could IO forget Ms Curran's stupid lies. The SNP spent weeks shouting from the rooftops that it was outrageous that the candidate would fake her roots.

Imagine my surprise when fourth-choice SNP candidate was revealed as a serial liar about his roots and there wasn't a peep from those self-same nats who spent so long just last year castigating somebody else for electioneering untruths...oh michy me what a bunch of hypocritical opportunists, eh?
67

Baggy Troosers,

07/11/2009 09:47:53
I see there is a brand new state of the art Hospital about to be built in Glasgow worth £840m MR Grahamski,will it meet with your approval!.
68

Gary Inserik,

Nova Scotia 07/11/2009 09:48:33
4000 people are on benefits in Glasgow NE. Assuming at least 2000 are healthy-ish and employable, that's potentially 2000 new recruits for cannon fodder in Afghanistan.

Of course, Gordo won't support a government that doesn't deal with it's own fraud. So why is he still in Westminster? And why does he want to send more troops into Afghanistan?

The answer is pretty obvious. Saving face. He is using your troops to save his own face in the international stage.
69

morris,

edinburgh 07/11/2009 09:49:01
64 Its even more interesting that Alex Salmond was a supporter of the 79 group as far as I know, and disagreed with the party leadership so much the group were expelled I believe,and he is now First Minister. That's not exactly sitting with what you are inferring IS IT?
70

Baggy Troosers,

07/11/2009 09:50:20
Mr Grahamski.
The next time you meet a Nationalist on your knees and kiss the Feet.
71

Jings MacCrivvens,

07/11/2009 09:50:53
#66
As I stated earlier at #56, you, in true Labour style, are trying to make the Labour Party inspired wars and their attendant atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan pale into insignificance when compared with telling porkies at a local level.

72

Gary Inserik,

Nova Scotia 07/11/2009 09:51:52
66
Grahamski

You are, of course, right. I won't take that statement away from you.

However, lets be honest, Labours track record for liars, thieves and other criminality is appalling and continues to appall.

The current candidate for the SNP in Glasgow NE is a bit of a toe headed numpty, that's for sure. The current Labour government is collectively far worse than can be tolerated.

After Gordo's speach the other day about sending more troops into Afghan, beware the ides of BNP.
73

Jings MacCrivvens,

07/11/2009 09:52:25
#70
Surely not!
Perhaps an area an inside-leg measurement away?
74

Baggy Troosers,

07/11/2009 09:52:31
A brand span*king new state of the art Hospital Mr Grahamski, wot you think.
75

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 09:52:46
69

Mr Morris,

I think you'll find Mr Salmond and his cronies were only suspended for a month. The only people expelled were the lunatic fringe or in the words of Gordon Wilson the 'crypto-fascists' of the Sons Of MacGlashan....
76

brownlie,

07/11/2009 09:57:07
64 Grahamski,

Yes, you're quite right, imagine me thinking that a Labour politician would lie for political advantage! Can you apologise to Bain for me when you see him when you're canvassing today in Newton Mearns or Islington? As some-one who does not agree with his Lord and Master I hope he can cope with having his office and home raided by the police.
77

morris,

edinburgh 07/11/2009 09:57:29
49 At least Id get a yellow card !
You will get a red of course at the
General Election
78

Baggy Troosers,

07/11/2009 09:57:46
Also on the same site a childrens Hospital Mr Grahamski ,with a cinema to keep the Bairns occupied Mr Grahamski,and all because of the Pesky SNP Mr Grahamski.
What utter disgraceful behaviour from Nichola Sturgeon.
79

Baggy Troosers,

07/11/2009 10:00:28
Vote SNP and get state of the art Hospitals

Vote Labour and get stupid Parliament buildings ,stupid rail links and not forgetting Trams
80

Gary Inserik,

Nova Scotia 07/11/2009 10:02:19
I tell you what, we could use somebody like Nochola Sturgeon over here.

She's a wee brammer (is that the right expresion?) so she is!

She would be a credit to any political party or any organisation or company.
81

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 10:03:19
76

Mr Brownlie,

Haven't you got better things to be doing?

Shouldnt you be heading towards Tynecastle by now? I'd have thought you'd need a couple of halfs to settle those nerves?
82

frank mcbride,

lusitania 07/11/2009 10:05:23
#60, Grahamski.

Now you're beginning to take on the mantle of Yeah1/AM2.

I would suggest that any competent person, reading the first three paragraphs of the article, would legitimately infer that Langside College is in Glasgow NE.

Far be it from me to suggest that you are less than competent.
83

Baggy Troosers,

07/11/2009 10:06:43
Vote Snp and get the things Scotland needs , not stupid Labour Monstrosities like the Parliament building and Donald Dewar Statues.
84

Mc Max ,

07/11/2009 10:07:49
52
Grahamski,Falkirk
I would agree that labour are pathetic.
Hundreds of thousands OF INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE dead because of a LABOUR LIE.
DO YOU THINK THATS ACCEPTABLE?
85

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 10:07:58
80

Mr Inserik,

"(is that the right expresion?)"

Err, the only person I can think of in Scotland who would say that is Mr Salmond.

The only time Mr Salmond ever unites Scotland is when as one we flinch when he trots out those arcahic cliched and hackneyed Scottishisms that nobody ever uses.....
86

Ben Thehoose,

07/11/2009 10:08:30
Jobs for all? In Glasgow? that's one slogan guaranteed to lose votes.
87

Mc Max ,

07/11/2009 10:11:37
So Mr Broon visits Langside College to support potential trougher Willie Bains Glasgow NE election campaign?
Looks like Broon needs a new compass.

88

Linda,

Edinburgh 07/11/2009 10:13:13
Has Jim Murphy learnt to spell Whisky yet?
89

SECESSION NOW,

07/11/2009 10:15:03
78
Baggy Troosers,
07/11/2009 09:57:46



Aye and she is doing it deliberately.


90

Mc Max ,

07/11/2009 10:15:26
Grahanski.
Lets not forget how labour operate.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yh7spkz

91

McNic,

07/11/2009 10:17:10
At least with all the new jobs Gordy wants to create the lowley tax payers will be able to afford EDFs enforced tax hike.
(from the times)
British families could be forced to pay up to £227 extra on their annual energy bills to help to fund a new generation of nuclear power stations under plans proposed by the French company expected to build most of them.

EDF Energy, which wants to build four reactors in Britain at a cost of about £20 billion, was accused of holding the Government to ransom last night, after an executive told The Times that none would be built unless the Government agreed to underwrite part of the cost. Speaking before a government announcement on Britain’s energy future on Monday, Humphrey Cadoux-Hudson, managing director of EDF Energy’s new nuclear business in Britain, said the nuclear programme would proceed only if the Government ensured that consumers paid more for electricity from fossil fuels, such as coal and gas, which is cheaper but produces more greenhouse gas, making nuclear more competitive.
92

SECESSION NOW,

07/11/2009 10:17:57
Figures released by Glasgow Council reveal the total number of postal vote applications granted for the by-election has reached 6,065 - an increase of 3646 on the 2005 figure of 2419.

It has also emerged that in the month of October alone the voters roll in Glasgow North East increased by an astonishing 2438 people, rising from 60037 at the start of the month to 62475 by the 31st.

The increases in postal votes mirror those of the Glenrothes by-election in 2008 where postal vote applications rose from 4181 in 2005 to 6954 in 2008. Of those 6954 applications 5584 were actually cast (around 80%).

93

brownlie,

07/11/2009 10:18:51
81 Grahamski,

Too much work to do to go slumming today. Strangely enough I'll be in your neck of the woods tomorrow but I'll be sitting at the opposite end to you, as usual. Despite that, I know who I'll be hoping to win. If you need directions to the park I'll be happy to oblige!!
94

Gary Inserik,

Nova Scotia 07/11/2009 10:20:13
85
Grahamski

Oh right, so you guys only tolerate the Queens English in Scotland then? Funny that, because I watch your Parliament debating on line and there are people accross all the political spectrum who use Scots and other slang when debating when the occasion arises.

That makes you a liar and a fool. A fool for denyng your own cultural heritage and adopting another countries. You dissapoint me. You are anti-scottish. I always thought the labour party stood up for the wee guy in Scotland. Last time I looked, the wee guy in Scotland spoke alsorts of dialects and langauges.
95

SECESSION NOW,

07/11/2009 10:20:35
AYE THEY HAVE PLENTY EXPERIENCE TO DRAW FROM:

Arshad Mahmood was yesterday jailed for six months after being found guilty at Bradford crown court of posing as another voter in last year's local elections, reported the Yorkshire Post (Sept 9, p6).

Mr Mahmood voted unlawfully for Labour in a Bradford City Council ward that was narrowly won by the Conservatives by three votes. Police were brought in after a presiding officer recognised him as having voted at his polling station.

The court heard that Mr Mahmood had been working as a runner for Salamat Ata, the losing Labour candidate in the disputed ward, and claimed that part of his duties were to help voters who had difficulty understanding the ballot.
96

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 10:21:51
93

Mr Brownlie,

Good luck anyway...and thanks for your kind offer, are you having a half in the Castings, before the match?I'll be in Springburn (or Springboig) tomorrow....
97

Ben Thehoose,

07/11/2009 10:23:18
#94 Gary.

Dear boy, please learn to spell (and how to use the apostrophe).

Thank you,

Uncle Ben.
98

SECESSION NOW,

07/11/2009 10:23:41
94
Gary Inserik,
Nova Scotia 07/11/2009 10:20:13




He is as Scottish as the man in the moon. He has been tricked many times into showing he has no knowledge of this country and he gleans his stuff from Google in between surfing the adult channels. He is no more than a sad lonely troll.
99

Baggy Troosers,

07/11/2009 10:28:57
#98
And apparently a Cumbernauld bairn not a Falkirk one.
100

SECESSION NOW,

07/11/2009 10:37:57

Firm with links to Labour figures wins huge Libya contracts
A secretive firm linked to senior Labour figures has won contracts worth more than £175 million to redevelop Libya, a Daily Telegraph investigation has discovered.



Explains a lot??
101

lulach mac gille coemgain,

07/11/2009 10:39:07
Doesn’t broonie mean “Dole’ for all - that’s what the Labour party have been best at in Glasgow for decades !
102

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 10:40:38
98

Mr Troosers,

Cumbernauld? Not me.
103

lulach mac gille coemgain,

07/11/2009 10:45:20
The beauty of the Postal vote - is the Labour party are learning the lessons from ‘How to win an election in an Afghanistan stylee’!

Oh and that’ll be a cupla thousand pounds on the expense sheet for a trip roond the slums for the PM !
104

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 10:56:03
103

The beuty of the postal vote is that more people participate in our democracy. Why is this a problem?
105

Mc Max ,

07/11/2009 10:57:05
Labours Glasgow NE legacy.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ybhq6ov

106

lulach mac gille coemgain,

07/11/2009 11:09:48
#104 Validation !
107

lulach mac gille coemgain,

07/11/2009 11:12:24
#104 - eh? why not online voting ? Why not telephone voting - the risks are not any less or more, valid than post ?
108

Mc Max ,

07/11/2009 11:14:22
More labour corruption.

http://tinyurl.com/yzzwdjf
109

Mc Max ,

07/11/2009 11:16:18
The list of labour sleaze and corruption is endless.


http://tinyurl.com/yg892vh
110

frank mcbride,

lusitania 07/11/2009 11:41:55
#104, Grahamski.

Or fewer!!! depending on how the validation is carried out.

You do remember the West Midlands' validation process that took place in Court found that fewer people participated than was first thought.

I believe that it had something to do with NuLabour corruption of the voting system. Correct me if I'm wrong.
111

John S,

07/11/2009 11:43:14
The Prime Minister said he wanted to create an economy with "jobs for all", will this include Glasgow North East ? it has 17.5% male unemployment, 6.4% female unemployment and 12.2% overall unemployment.16 September 2009

Gordon Brown - not only do we give you new opportunities in education, does this also include Glasgow North East ?
Out of 628 Westminster constituencies, Glasgow North East is the 615th worst for people with no qualifications, and out of the 59 in Scotland, it is 4th from the bottom. That is to say, more than a quarter (25.5%) of people in Glasgow North East have no qualifications at all.16 September 2009
112

TWC,

exLabour 07/11/2009 11:43:24
The seat is safe but Brown has had 12 Good years to put jobs into Glasgow and he's done nothing, the guy is all talk no action.
113

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 11:52:22
110

Mr McBride,


"Correct me if I'm wrong."

You are wrong.

The criminals who perpetrated the crimes in the Midlands have been dealt with by the appropriate courts. The fact that they happened to be Labour Party members is regrettable but that says no more about Labour than an SNP councillor forcing his child to discharge semi-automatic gunfire in a terrorist area of Pakistan says anything about the SNP.

Both instances reflect bady on the individuals but not at all on their respective parties.
114

TWC,

exLabour 07/11/2009 12:00:07
113 Grahamski

Pretty Lame Graham, the Labour Party we knew is largely gone and will stay that way until the Unions rebel, I remember how it was when I was considering going to Bournmouth College to pursue a career in our Union, they would have sorted this lot out.

The problem goes right to the core; I see now that the guy chosen to implemement the expenses says he won't necessarily stick to the recommendations.

I find myself further and further from Labour as time goes by. I had real hopes when Wendy came but she was done in by a colleague because she wanted devolution a la John Smith.
115

Mc Max ,

07/11/2009 12:00:15
113.
Labour are corrupt to the core ,everyone knows this as fact,even labour.
116

Rumpus Floatfly,

07/11/2009 12:01:15
Jobs for all? Weegies don't want to work. Vote Tory!
117

frank mcbride,

lusitania 07/11/2009 12:03:55
#113, Grahamski.

Deflection is thy name.

As you, and the rest of the people know, the West Midlands cases were not the only ones........think Yorkshire!!!

I suppose it's just coincidence that all the proven cases of voting irregularities have invoved NuLabour activists.

For someone who is continuously preaching honesty and integrity, your defence of the wrongdoings of NuLabour activist is on a par with the provenance of Gordon Brown's moral compass.
118

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 12:05:06
117

Mr McBride,

I condemn criminal activity. Full stop.
119

John S,

07/11/2009 12:05:26
Labour Party and postal ballots.

Labour to halt postal vote fraud but only after election.Two judges in the past week have said that the system was wide open to fraud after scandals in Birmingham and Blackburn, where Labour stole thousands of people’s postal votes in local elections.
Times April 11, 2005 http://tinyurl.com/554gvm

Labour was thrust into a postal ballots row last night, as police revealed they are looking into allegations against two senior Yorkshire councillors accused of breaking strict election guidelines.About 480 names were submitted by post for entry on the register last Wednesday, the last day for anyone wanting to take part in the election on May 3.
Yorkshire Post- 30 April 2007 http://tinyurl.com/66kx7c

Election fraud: Labour failed to act, say MPs-Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust reported;"Greater use of postal voting has made the UK elections far more vulnerable to fraud and resulted in several instances of large scale fraud."
Guardian May 2 2008 http://tinyurl.com/59k7sb

Labour Officials guilty of vote rigging.Peterborough.While the sheer number of votes– 2,900 – seemed “out of proportion” when compared to the rest of the city.February 21, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/2bveh4

Postal vote allegations: Labour candidate contest in Erith and Thamesmead
The selection process was postponed last Friday after it was discovered that the ballot box containing Erith and Thamesmead's postal votes had been tampered with and papers inside ripped up. A new hustings is due on May 16.Guardian - 25 April 2009 : http://tinyurl.com/ygd4b8v
120

morris,

edinburgh 07/11/2009 12:11:15
104 The register is based upon trust.
If you declare that Mickeyus Mousekius has come to live in Graham Street then his name goes on the register as of the qualifiying date.(10th October I think)
He can then mysteriously disappear again the following day, thats if he ever actually existed in the first place. He can re-appear on polling day or he can be a postal vote because he now lives at Disneyworld .

The whole system was designed to be corrupted with minimal ease.
You must know this

EVERYBODY ELSE DOES!
121

Rumpus Floatfly,

07/11/2009 12:11:26
Weegies are used to putting an X in the box. That's how they sign their name. Vote Tory.
122

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07/11/2009 12:12:37
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123

Rumpus Floatfly,

07/11/2009 12:13:44
I'd like to see Gordon Brown in the ring against Nicolay Valuev. I'd also like to see Mrs Brown mud wrestling.
124

Rumpus Floatfly,

07/11/2009 12:16:08
Why is David Kerr focussing on eduction? That's nowt to do with Westminster. Vote X.
125

frank mcbride,

lusitania 07/11/2009 12:16:10
#118, Grahamski.

Next in line for cannonisation after the sainted Tony.

I say this because your comments have the same resonance as his. I think the word sanctimonious just about sums them up.
126

Rumpus Floatfly,

07/11/2009 12:16:38
William Bain is the son of a lift engineer. He'll be used to ups and down then.
127

TWC,

exLabour 07/11/2009 12:19:04
As long as there is a statistical check on postal votes issued then it is easy to test the whole population. I think this will be done this time.
If there is another case of obvious manipulation then it must lie at the door of the PM.

Lat's face it Cameron and Salmond aren't going to be to blame. Whichever activists carry our the Scams mentioned down in England there is no doubt who their boss is.
128

Marian,

07/11/2009 12:19:54
Vote for Willie Bain? No not a chance, not after the lies, smears and complete rubbish he has come out with over the course of this by-election.

Labour’s “hypocrisy” when they criticise the SNP’s decision to scrap the Glasgow Airport Rail Link has now been exposed for all the world to see with the UK Labour Government's scrapping of the important Glasgow to London East Coast trains link without any consultation (see http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/transport-environment/glasgow-to-london-east-coast-trains-to-be-axed-1.930911) and Labour MSP's conspiring to divert money away from the planned Edinburgh-Borders rail route to help resurrect their own city's axed airport link (see http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Glasgow-MSPs-accused-of-sabotaging.5804670.jp).

The SNP should be shouting about this scandal loudly and clearly over and over gain from the rooftops in Glasgow during the dying days of the Glasgow North East by-election campaign.
129

morris,

edinburgh 07/11/2009 12:20:08
126 Yes but will he get his come-uppance?
130

Rumpus Floatfly,

07/11/2009 12:20:45
Ruth Davidson's dad used to play for Partick Thistle.
She's a heid the ba'
131

Rumpus Floatfly,

07/11/2009 12:21:30
Vote carpet muncher.
132

Buckpool Loon,

Cheshire 07/11/2009 12:22:49
The promise of 'Jobs for all' by the vanquisher of Boom & Bust has the same resonance of empty rhetoric.
133

Grahamski,

Falkirk 07/11/2009 12:23:03
Mr S

Funny you should have cut this bit out of your selctive quotes: "Earlier this week, the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust reported it had found no evidence that fraud had increased since the introduction of postal voting on demand..." Guardian May 2, 2008
134

Rumpus Floatfly,

07/11/2009 12:25:18
A Tory councillor was found guilty of using bogus postal votes to ensure he was voted into office in Slough.


If everybody else does it why shouldn't he?
135

Handsome Scotsman,

07/11/2009 12:25:18

Vote Labour……!

Have your brain washed, lies force fed, get widespread corruption, accept ineptitude, be a subject not a citizen, invade oil rich nations, become a database entity, endure snooping surveillance, increase deprivation, make the pensioners poor and the bankers rich, crash the economy, get boom and bust, £100 billion Trident with £2.3 trillion debt, fiddle MP’s expenses, steal Scotland’s oil money but decrease their budget, unelected peers in high office, massive unemployment, broken referendum promises, huge tax hikes, 10p tax fiascos,


Spend all the money, borrow more, go bust, blame it on someone else….!
136

Rumpus Floatfly,

07/11/2009 12:26:19
He was convicted and thrown out of the Tory party. He's now got a job as envelope stuffer for labour.
137

Rumpus Floatfly,

07/11/2009 12:27:50
"Despite the 2006 Act, the opportunities for easy and effective electoral fraud remain substantially as they were on 4 April, 2005."

I think we should have a real election and a bogus one where everybody is allowed to cheat.
138

morris,

edinburgh 07/11/2009 12:40:07
130 Aye and the Jags have a better chance of winning the Premier Division than she has in this seat.(Yes I know they are currently in the 1st div just above mid table)That is precisely the point.
139

Rock Lobster,

07/11/2009 13:44:52

Jobs for all, says Broon,

Is he bringing forward the NewLab policy " work for dole"
140

mark mccann,

07/11/2009 13:52:05
Meanwhile in the real world, a brand new hospital is being built in Glasgow. The SNP continues in it's policy of ripping off the weedgies. Building white elephants that benefit no-one. Two jobs Eck and his cronies fleecing Glasgow and buying votes on the East coast as usual.
141

Alfie Bett,

07/11/2009 13:55:45
Unfortunately this absolute disaster of a chancellor/prime minister will come up here and talk this absolute nonsense and some people will still be taken in by it again and again,he knows that the suckers will be taken in yet again, a few handshakes and that rictus of a smile and the faithful are flattered that this oh so busy man has taken time out from saving the world to just talk specially to them,whit an awfy nice man he actually shook ma haun.
I fear in this constituency thats all it takes for Labour to get back in and probably the mugs will duly oblige.
142

KampungHighlander,

Jakarta 07/11/2009 14:08:53
Labours Postal voting strategy is off to a flying start.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HWui4OZawc
143

Richard Lionheart,

07/11/2009 15:40:47
We all know that G B Never completes his sentences in his public speeches. He presented enough budget day speeches for us all to know that.

Here is the unsaid end to his Create jobs for all line.

I will create jobs for all (who have been a phone a friend for Alastair Campbell. They will be paid not more than £100,000 per annum plus expenses. They will ensure that MP’s will still be able to feed at the trough)
144

Scotfree,

Erskine 07/11/2009 16:11:02
With near 5 million unemployed, in the most deprived constituency in Scotland, with a previous incumbent who lined his pocket with over a million in expenses forced to resign for his part in the most corrupt regime of self enrichment in our body politic, we have the preposterous spectacle of this lying deceitful lowlife, incompetent vermin, Gordon Brown, promising jobs for all. No - rather jobs for the boys, multimillion Blair, his brother and the labour clique in Scotland rely on a sea of poverty in Scotland to ensure they keep their long game con in business. If the voters of Glasgow East want decent jobs with decent pay they first have do they decent thing and perform the only job that can make a difference and help rid Scotland of one more layer of Labour corruption, Glasgow East.
The labour party must not be defeated it must be destroyed!
145

Mc Max ,

07/11/2009 16:32:31
http://tinyurl.com/y97gqwp

Labour must be booted out of Scotland.
146

puskas,

East kilbride 07/11/2009 16:57:39
No146...

Have Faith
147

Mc Max ,

07/11/2009 19:50:33
Cluless Laural & Hardy of the labour party are slapped in the face by the USA and Canada.
No one is listening to bumbling Broon and chancer Darling.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yzensma
148

museum attendant,

glasgow north 07/11/2009 23:13:00
gord, labour has had control of glasgow north for over 70 years and never managed to affect an increase in anything except alcohol abuse,drug misuse and abject poverty(all symptomatic of the prevailing feeling of hopelessness and lack of any decent future by the constituents; being stamped on and ignored by the disgusting, sleazy and corrupt incumbent labour party)
youve had your time....go get f*kced.
by the way, does anyone else think gord stomping oot the g20 meeting after his deserved(again)snubbing by the real world players, looked a tad like armand in "the birdcage" storming off to los lobos with nothing but his toothbrush!!!lol
149

drunken proffet,

Tassy 08/11/2009 07:34:56
Jobs for all should send a quiver through the heart of a few folk in NE Glasgow. Not the least the Bru. Still, as far as the Americans are concerned, Superman is alive and well and he has a large family. So if you can employ one or two you could be OK. Just keep an eye out for Kryptonite.
150

Jobless recovery,

08/11/2009 07:54:35
#37

Are you serious? Communism deserves to be insulted. I spit on communists.

Scotland makes me want to vomit with its benefits culture and love affair with socialism.

That's why I support UKIP. We seriously need to get rid of the welfare state, the NHS (as Daniel Hannan warned) etc.

Go back to sound principles of government as outlined by Ezra Taft Benson - the Proper Role of Government.

We also need to scrap out socialist gun control laws.

www.britainneedsguns.co.uk

 

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